The formula with which to find an equilateral hexagon's area is 2.5981 times the length of one side squared.

"Labor, even the most humble and the most obscure, if it is well done, tends to beautify and embellish the world." - Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938), poet, author, soldier, political activist, 1920, in Survey of Labor Relations, 1987"What joy to discern the minute in infinity! The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity! - Jakob Bernoulli"It is not only what we do, but what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere Via"I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears." - Maurits Cornelious Escher (1898-1972)"The future influences the present just as much as the past." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Scarlett Johansson's upcoming album of Tom Waits covers, 'Anywhere I Lay My Head', which features 10 covers (and one original song, 'Song for Jo'), is due for worldwide release in May. Via"[Work] Something made greater by ourselves and in turn makes us greater." - Maya Angelou, novelist, poet, actress, in Black Scholar."If you knew just how scared most people are, you'd be even braver (running faster, jumping higher, and laughing louder)." - The Universe"Creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness." - Eric Temple Bell"Bet you could get used to a little more presto, bingo, and ta- da, huh?" - TU"For me it remains an open question whether [this work] pertains to the realm of interface design or to that of map art." - R.B. Wild (after M.C. Escher)

Mathematical Art Exhibits : http://www.bridgesmathart.org/amsmaa.html"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." - Robert Louis Stevenson"From a little spark may burst a mighty flame." - Dante"... like a face in a cloud: some see the head of a sheep, some the contours of a ghost while other the backside of a minotaur, all in the same cloud." - Jacques Vache, the Selkirk behind the Surrealist movement"There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with art-lessness." - Via"It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly great generality is in essence the same as a small and concrete special case." - Paul Halmos in 'I Want To Be a Mathematician'

"The crown of a good disposition is humility." - Arab Proverb"In the middle of these cogitations, apprehensions, and reflections, it came into my thought one day, that all this might be a mere chimera of my own, and that this foot might be a print of my own foot." - Robinson Crusoe"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish." - Ovid"The main thing to keeping the main thing the main thing, is reminding yourself as often as you can of where the most joy will come from (the main thing is keeping focused on your true end result, not the "hows" of getting there). And there is no more effective end result than happiness." - The Universe"In the mountains of truth you never climb in vain." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

22 February 2008

PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing images from Google, Yahoo, SmugMug, Flickr, Photobucket, and DeviantArt. Just type a query and view all the results in the PicLens interactive "3D Wall" (drag, click, and zoom your way around a wall of pictures for an extraordinary viewing experience).

"Navigation is about more than going from one point to the next. It's about fulfilling one's aspirations." - James Akerman of the Newberry Library in Chicago"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions; as attempts to find out something." - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900, German"Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men." - Kin Hubbard"A city changes shape, alas, faster than a mortal’s heart." - Baudelaire"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." - Edward Degas

(French Blog) "Cartographismes" : http://cartomane.blog.lemonde.fr/"Whatever interest attaches to your subject-matter must be evoked here and now… The present contains all that there is." - A.N. Whitehead, The Aims of Education, 1929"This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no fooling around." - David Byrne, Life During Wartime"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments." - Friedrich Nietzsche"Anything can be justified." - The Universe"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left." - Oscar Levant

(Project A7, Sub-project) Cartographic Models in Contemporary Art : Dr Susanne Leeb - Research Associate, Free University Berlin. Beginning in the 1950s, the map as a pictorial form and medium of information, as well as cartography as an aesthetic and histological praxis, has undergone a process of artistic re-appropriation, and has been theorized under the concept of mapping. This theoretical rediscovery begins with the redefinition of maps as models for forms of behavior, and as capable of disclosing new modes of experience, as programmatically formulated by the Situationists.

"In information mapping you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - R.B.Wild (after Johann von Neumann)"The Cubist moment was…a beginning, defining desires which are still unmet." - J. Berger. 'The Moment of Cubism,' 1969"Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about." - Law of Logical Argument"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain"The 'easy way' is rarely the glamorous way (unless, of course, you can see the glamour in baby steps and blue jeans)." - The Universe

Mapping the Imagination exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum (until 27 April 2008) Maps are simplified schematic diagrams that employ a universal visual language through which we codify and comprehend our world (information about places, routes, networks and boundaries). Via

"Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time." - David Travis, Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago"Machine-made pictures, framed with words." - Archimedes"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success." - Rob Gilber"Every creation springs from an abundance… an overflow of energy. Creation is accomplished by a surplus of ontological substance." - Mircea. Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, 1957"Ask and ye shall receive, knock and it shall be opened unto you." - Jesus

"A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the memory. " - ?"Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost." -Isak Dineson, Babette's Feast"GIVE TO OTHERS THE SAME LOVE & BEAUTY & HARMONY THAT YOU & OTHERS ARE RECEIVING FROM THE WHOLE." - Via"All of us have been classically trained, and now we’re in a jazz age. - Rishad Tobaccowala, chief innovation officer of Publicis, one of the world’s biggest advertising groups (quoted in The Economist)"Do not try to prove yourself. Quietly pursue your aims and you will get what is due." - I.ChingVia

Received favorable mention here : http://youareherehon.blogspot.com/2008/02/another-tip-of-tiara.html (but no side-bar listing? yet?)"Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.' " - Joey Adams"Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings." - Edward Said (1994) Via"Maintain stability and integrity without being willful. Success will come without effort in its own time." - The Oracle"Everything had broken down and new things had to be made out of the fragments. Collage was like an image of the revolution within me—not as it was, but as it might have been." - Kurt Schwitters"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way." - Francis Bacon"I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it." - ?"At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tzu Via"Truth was a pathless land." - Jeddu Krishnamurti (1896-1986)"(True brilliance is not a function of understanding one's view of the world and finding order, logic, and spirituality in it.) True brilliance is understanding that your view of order, logic, and spirituality is what created your world. And therefore being forever capable of changing everything." - The Universe

"Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation." - Sant Kirpal Singh, Emanationism and Non-Duality"One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient." - Henri Poincaré, French mathematician

"The child, but dimly aware at the time -- Remembers all his life The shock of being born." - Bradford Shank"If, as the Moors believed, repeated patterns connote the divine, we might conclude that Heaven itself would be a hyperbolic space." - Via"Let the lion give one roar and the brains of the little foxes will split open." - Radical Talk from Rinzai

"The road to Heaven may not be a road at all." - Peter Holleran"Art from New Places." - Andy Warhol"You can meditate for fifteen years and get one inch closer to God; or you can be really angry and be with Him instantly." - Sufi proverb"The future may be unknowable, but it's not unthinkable." - Richard Koshalek, President, Art Center College of Design"You can have more, you can even have it all, when you begin seeing perspectives you have never seen before." - TU